Christa Pike makes first public comments since failed execution: ‘There is pain in my mind and in my soul’
Summary
Christa Pike said she remains in physical pain and mental distress a month after Tennessee’s botched attempt to execute her. She is recovering in a Nashville prison infirmary, while Governor Bill Lee has paused executions pending an outside review.Key Facts
- Pike made her first public comments since the failed execution in a statement released by her legal team.
- She said pain in her body, throat, mind and soul has continued since the procedure.
- On September 30, execution team members spent nearly an hour trying to establish an intravenous line before administering pentobarbital; Pike survived.
- Pike was convicted of murdering classmate Colleen Slemmer in 1995, when Pike was 18.
- After 10 days of intensive hospital treatment, Pike returned to the Debra Johnson rehabilitation center in Nashville.
- Pike said she is largely isolated in the infirmary and that isolation adds to her distress.
- Tennessee Governor Bill Lee ordered a pause on executions pending an outside review.
- Lee said Pike’s death sentence is expected to remain in place unless courts rule otherwise.
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